Inflated pricing? I think it does the complete opposite actually. If you have more members, you have to sell for less, because there is a higher offer than demand.

Although that makes a lot of sense, there is another thing to consider. That is that the community is made of contributing members who would feel bad about ripping each other off and actually stuff here ends up being same price or cheaper because of that reason and also because unlike kijiji people here have an idea of what stuff is worth.

And I must that so far, the BST is going pretty dandy, not too many complaints and as Arinoth said, it was asked by members because there was a problem.